Information is key to orderly and enjoyable project management. Information is one of the necessary resources for efficient and effective project management.
Dr. Rogers' Rule 5: Project Communication is an active, two-way process, not a one-way street
Dr. Rogers' Rule 8: Have Fun!
Information coming down “Communication Street” often looks just like a circus parade. Lots of elephants, jugglers, and clowns obscuring the tractors, trailers, and cages overlaid with a cacophony of sounds and smells. Communication Street should be like a mythical wide boulevard with shading elms and sidewalk shops and cafes; a perfect Paris or New York thoroughfare. A two way street, broad enough to allow the parade of information to make a straight run from one end to the other even with the overload of busy cross traffic, parade watchers, souvenir hawkers, and pot holes, a typical project endures.
Like a major city artery “Communication Street” needs to provide for the boutiques, cafes and shops (your matrix providers of services) that line the sidewalks. Your allied team members need to pick up the information they need to stay in business without interfering with the project parade and without the parade overwhelming their main business enterprises.
“Communication Street” also needs to allow two way traffic during the parade. The entire project team needs to know what’s happening up and down the parade route so that they can react to the lions escape. The sidewalk cafes need to stay open during the parade to provide a place where one can rest a minute and pick up or drop off information.
Effective and efficient communication of information is essential to project success. Top project managers are like “Circus Ring Leaders”. They know how to lead the parade down Communication Street, ignoring the jugglers, clowns, and elephants while picking up and dropping off information at the cafes and making it all the way to the Circus Grounds.
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